Improvement in ladies  paper



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON S.- GRAY, OF BOSTON. M-ASSACHU SETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN LADES PAPER CCLLARS.

Snocification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,232. dated February r7, 18.65.

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Be it known that l, SOLOMON S. GRAY, of Boston, in the county ofSufi'olk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful lmprovementfin Paper andv Cloth-and-Paper Uollars; 'and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction 'and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying lrawings,`forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure .1 is a plan of a ladyls collar before it is formed, being a straight strip of paper or cloth and paper. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the same after it isformed or finished. Fig. 3 is a view of th'e concave edge of a tinishcd coli-ar, and' Fig. 4 is' a view'of the convex edge ot' the same. Fig. 5 isa front elevation of a machine by means of which'the straight strip shown in Fig. 1 is formed into the curved and linished collar shown in Fig. 2.

Like parts are in `licated by the same letters in ail the d'rawings.

My improvement is more particularly applicable to what are known as ladies' collars, of paper or cloth'and paper, which are now cut o ut on eurved lines or the ares of circles, so as to give them 'the requisite Shape' when on the weareris neck, the great objection to which method of construction is the .necessary waste of, material attendant on the cutting out of the cnrved strips of which the collars are formed. v

The nature of my invention, therefore, consists in constructing a collar out of a straight strip of paper or eloth and paper and giving it the requisite cnrve by contracting one of its edges by plaiting, doublin'g, or folding down the same, while the opposite edge re! mains either smooth or slightly corrugated.

To enable others' slilled in the art to make :md use my invention,Il will nw describe the construction and operation of the same. i

1 first cut out the material into straight strips A of the required Vlength and width, as represcnted in Fig. 1. rThese strips I run through amachine represented in Fig. 5, in which E is the'frame, and F and G two cylinders of .suitable metal, provided withv axles 7;' and l. One part, h, of the periphery of these cylinders is smooth, the' other part, i, being provided with cogs-those of the onecylinder meshing into those of the other like the teeth of two piuion-wheels. These cylinders may 'be straight-or slightly conical. They are pressed together with the requisite force by Springs on their axles.

P is a pulley, by'which the machine is driven by a belt, or it may be driven by means of the Crank n.

The eollar on being passed between .the two cylinder-s F and G (in the position represented by the dotted lines in Fig. 5) assumes the eurved form shown in Fig. 2, the concave edged being plaited and i-lattcned down by' the smooth part of the cylinders, and vconse quently contracted in length, as represented in vFig. 3, while the opposite edge, b, is only slightly waved or eorrugated, as represented in Fig. 4. The part b may, however, be left nearlyT or 'entirely smooth, if desirable-as, for instance, on the outer-part of a turn-'over collar, either for ladies or gentlemen-the contracting of the part'd giving the collar the requisit'e fiare or space between the outer and inner portions. In this manner properly shaped and highly ornamental collars can be made with great rapidity, cheapness, and eeonomy of stock.

Havingthus described the nature of niy invention, What I claim a-s new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is, as a new article of manufacture- A paper or cloth-and-paper collar, to which.

-SOLOMON S. GRAY.

Wit-nesses:

N AMES. HENRY F. SHAW. 

